San Pedro de Merida No. 3 / San Pedro de Mérida
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Image Source: drawing in Palol [after A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
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Image Source: drawing in Palol [after Almagro & A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a drawing in Palol [after A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967
Image Source: detail of a drawing in Palol [after A. Marcos Pous] (1967)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07587PED
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th century(late?), Early Christian? / Visigothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Templo de San Pedro de Mérida
Font Location in Church: In a baptistery room, in the NE of the nave
Site Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the BA-125, N of the A-5, 13 km ENE of Mérida, 77 km of Badajoz caital
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Palol (1967) as a rectangular sunken font of a somewhat irregular shape, since one of the arms is longer than the other and it has a rounded end; it was discovered in the 1960s in the site of the Visigothic church at San Pedro de Mérida; the well is also rectangular with four steep steps on each side and a narrow well; Palol (ibid.) suggests that the finish would have been opus signinum over the concrete of stone core [two other rectangular sunken fonts: Dehesa de la Cocosa, in Mérida, and Necrópolis de San Fructuoso, in Tarragona]
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 743900 4314870
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.948869, -6.185595
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 56′ 55.93″ N, 6° 11′ 8.14″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: sunken font, rectangular
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage System: none
REFERENCES
- Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967, p. 97-99, 168 and fig. 64
- Palol, Pedro de, Arte paleocristiano en España, Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, [1969?], p. 35, 41